Yesterday morning I posted this to our team, a new plan, now that a resurgence in health issues seemed like it would be managed again, to launch my product.
text above reads: Hey Everyone!
Just using a free basecamp project to give myself some separation, and dopamine, to be able to focus on the project outside of the rest of all that goes on. Will still be using Notion and Slack.
I have had a rough few months, missing our last launch window, and then health issues coming back to haunt me. My motivation and self-efficacy have been struggling a lot. But I am not going to give up! Not when we're this close, and not when you've all put in so much to help me!
So today marks the beginning of a new 4 week sprint to launch Cammi. I know we/I can do this! 💪🏻
The focus of the next 4 weeks is to:
A few hours later I was writing an email to my clinical care team to let them know about three more episodes of VT. I wasn't too bothered as some more was possibly expected having only just changed my medication the day before. My VT is managed my a medical device, so as long as it stopped I'd be fine.
By the time I finished writing the email I was at 6 episodes, a few hours later I was visiting the outpatients clinic having had many more, and a few hours after that I was waiting to be admitted to a ward to stay overnight. I'd clocked 22 episodes by the end of the day.
This is the reality for a disabled founder, in the morning we're planning, in the evening we're in hospital. We don't get to control this, it just happens to us. All we can do is keep trying. Resilience and persistence take on new meaning, and we have to accept that making progress can take much longer. Sometimes this can put us at a huge competitive disadvantage, though I think it also gives us a unique way of looking at things and that itself is something that often ends up being turned into the best new innovations.
Don't count disabled founders like me out, we're going to keep at it as long as we can.
